Athlete Spotlight: Nam Nguyen

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Nam: 5 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Nam: Pringles BBQ flavoured chips

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Nam: To disappear at will

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Nam: A beet farm

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Nam: Honestly, my dream vacation is to just spend it in bed watching movies. Not a big fan of going to a destination

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Nam: Performing for the audience and developing some sort of connection with them during my skate. I feel that it’s always special to share the “moment” with the people watching, because I think that it makes it more special. It also helps reduce the nerves too.

Athlete Spotlight: Nicolas Nadeau

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Nicolas: 6 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Nicolas: Pancakes (The one’s my aunt makes preferably)

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Nicolas: Flying, very useful in this sport and in Montreal traffic

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Nicolas: A car for my mom! Her car is literally the same age as me. Plus, she’s so nice she’d let me have the new one for myself!

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Nicolas: Either going back to California. (I went for 4 continents last year) I had a blast, but I wish I had more time there as I only stayed 2 extra days or Cabarete in Dominican Republic. I went there 3 years ago with my best friend and the kite surfing there is CRAZY. Awesome place and lot of fun.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Nicolas: Reaching the goals that I set myself. Learning and improving my own person to achieve those goals are a big thing for me nowadays.

Athlete Spotlight: Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Marjorie: 3 years-old
Zachary: 4 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Marjorie: Pasta or chocolate
Zachary: Pizza

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Marjorie: A superpower that can make everyone happy and nice
Zachary: Travel within time dimension

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Marjorie: Donate money for autism
Zachary: I would buy a house

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Marjorie: France, because I’ve never been there, and they also speak French and we call them cousins, so I’d like to go there one day.
Zachary: Fiji Islands

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Marjorie: The feeling of freedom and to be able to tell a story at the same time as doing impressive things. I love the artistic part of it.
Zachary: The dance aspect of it

Athlete Spotlight: Roman Sadovsky

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Roman: 5 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Roman: Ramen

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Roman: Flight

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Roman: Another lottery ticket, and bitcoin

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Roman: Japan. It has a good balance of rural and urban areas. Good food. Nice landscapes. And I could take thousands of pictures.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Roman: Jumping. The satisfaction of landing a really good jump is dope.

Athlete Spotlight: Conrad Orzel

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Conrad: 6 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Conrad: Pizza or sushi

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Conrad: Ability to rotate 5 times in the air

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Conrad: Stock or real estate

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Conrad: I would like to visit Tokyo because I heard from others that it’s a great place to go and experience a unique culture.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Conrad: The sense of purpose it gives me in life. A motivation to perfect something.

Athlete Spotlight: Evelyn Walsh and Trennt Michaud

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Evelyn: 2 years-old
Trennt: 9 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Evelyn: Cookie dough ice cream
Trennt: Tacos

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Evelyn: To fly so I can travel much quicker but still enjoy the view
Trennt: Be like Spiderman

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Evelyn: A trampoline
Trennt: Pay off all my mom’s debt and buy her a house.

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Evelyn: My dream vacation would be Bora Bora because it’s a magical destination with insane sunsets, unreal scenery and a little escape from reality.
Trennt: Italy. I’ve always wanted to go to Italy, the culture, food, the way of life there looks amazing to me. I’d want to visit the touristy places but also go to the south and find one of those places that are hidden gems and stay there for a long time.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Evelyn: I would have to say my favourite thing about figure skating it the ability to tell a story through my body movement and expression. It’s so rare to learn a story through strictly movement compressed into four minutes, but that’s why figure skating is so unique.
Trennt: I love the feeling of skating around even without tricks, but I love being able to jump and spin, and skate with someone else. Skating has so many ways to enjoy it, so I think that’s my favourite thing about it.

Athlete Spotlight: Carolane Soucisse and Shane Firus

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Carolane: 5 years-old
Shane: 8 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Carolane: Dumplings
Shane: Anything Japanese

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Carolane: Read minds
Shane: Time control

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Carolane: A nice dinner
Shane: Another lottery ticket

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Carolane: Greece. Because it has everything you are looking in a vacation, good food, beautiful views, historical sites and there’s no snow!
Shane: Backpacking over south east Asia, because I love to explore!

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Carolane: The fact that you can focus on emotions and create so much by connecting to the character or the feelings you want to show/interpret. You can create a whole new experience for you and the public.
Shane: I love the feeling of freedom I have and being able to dance with Carolane.

Athlete Spotlight: Lubov Ilyushechkina and Charlie Bilodeau

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Lubov: 4 years-old
Charlie: 3 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Lubov: Cheese
Charlie: Meatballs

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Lubov: Being able to fly
Charlie: To be as flexible as Lubov

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Lubov: A house. Hope, I’ll win enough
Charlie: I don’t know, but something absurd

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Lubov: Dubai. Seems like a nice place and I’ve never been there before
Charlie: Australia, to feel the vibe of the place

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Lubov: I love doing tricks and how I can express myself through the movement without speaking
Charlie: The junction of art and sport

Athlete Spotlight: Véronik Mallet

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Véronik: 2 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Véronik: Chocolate

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Véronik: To be able to teleport myself

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Véronik: Another dog

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Véronik: Greece, I’ve always wanted to see Santorini.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Véronik: To push myself further every day.

Athlete Spotlight: Haley Sales and Nikolas Wamsteeker

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Haley: 4 years-old
Nikolas: 4 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Haley: Scandinavian cuisine
Nikolas: Mediterranean

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Haley: Teleportation
Nikolas: Teleportation

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Haley: Clothes for the vacation I’d be about to go on. And then I’d buy a puppy!
Nikolas: Sailboat

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Haley: Probably Bora Bora because it looks really cool! And then Norway to visit family and travel the coast, visiting all the pretty fjords.
Nikolas: I would love to do a motorcycle tour of Norway, because of my ancestry, and I’ve always planned to cruise the Aegean and see all the archaeological sites there. Getting some diving done in both places would also be on the itinerary. I’ve also always really wanted to dive on some of the Second World War wreck sites in the pacific with my father. All that aside though I really wouldn’t mind just perusing the Scottish isles and trying a bunch of scotch.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Haley: The performance aspect, being able to be inform of people- to make them smile.
Nikolas: The blend of athleticism and artistry

Athlete Spotlight: Keegan Messing

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Keegan: 3 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Keegan: Any of Trennt Michaud’s cooking

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Keegan: Ice powers like Frozone from the Incredibles so I can make an ice path wherever and whenever I want.

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Keegan: I’d make and maintain a community cross-country ice patch and build a backcountry ice machine to make ice trails.

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Keegan: A two-week camping or canoe trip anywhere with my wife, but if you ask her it would be to go to Greece.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Keegan: The performance

Athlete Spotlight: Aurora Cotop

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Q: How old were you when you first started figure skating?
Aurora: 4 years-old

Q: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Aurora: Chicken. I would eat it all day, every day, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Q: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Aurora: The ability to telepathically out people in my shoes so they can see that I am always right.

Q: What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery?
Aurora: Cats. As many as possible.

Q: What is your dream vacation destination and why?
Aurora: Anywhere warm that has nice sandy beaches. The sand must be soft. This is very important. Top priority. I went to a beach in Mexico this year that had the worst sand. I couldn’t walk for the rest of the trip. Also, no sharks is a must. I would like to come back alive.

Q: What is your favourite thing about figure skating?
Aurora: I love the mixture between athleticism and the artistry. It is such a beautiful sport, but it is also very, very difficult.